title: Learning landmarks and routes in multi-floored buildings.
abstract: Existing studies have proposed that humans preferentially memorize buildings as a collection of floors. Yet this might stem from the fact that environments were also explored by floors. We have studied this potential bias with a learning and recognition experiment. We have detected a positive influence of the learning route - by floors, and also crucially by columns - on spatial memory performances.
authors.forename: Alain
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Berthoz
authors.forename: Guillaume
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Thibault
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D013037:Spatial Behavior